There is a tension in Christian eschatological thinking between a belief in apokatastasis, the fulfilment of God's purpose in all things, and a belief in consummation as involving judgment and division, heaven and hell.

Due to the generalization of the figurative, which does not substitute the real for an imaginary alternative, but supplements it with an interactive counterpart, the closing chapter succeeds in sketching the outline of an overall restoration, an apokatastasis pantoon, yet not without a preceding overall destruction.

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